Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts.

Do you want to create a unique category-specific page template for each of your Categories? Here’s how…

This tutorial focuses on the first part of the process: applying a CSS grid to the design to prototype a home page template.

Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning are…

create custom write panel pages, custom fields, templating…

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The Shopp plugin adds a feature filled online store to your WordPress-powered website. It’s been designed to make it easy for just about anyone to get an online store setup in minutes while giving power users the capability to easily customize every aspect of the shopping experience.

The package contains video solutions framework, including transcoder and administration interface utilities, written in PHP. The code was developed by Automattic Inc, and powers wordpress.com video solutions.
It supports multiple formats including HD. We hereby make it open source project so that you can reuse it, build upon it, and share with the community.

The solution is a WPMU plugin. However it can not be used as "out-of-the-box" type because it also depends on your file serving infrastructure, and your URL schemes. Customize your pieces, then you have a full-fledged video solution. Or you can just reuse the individual components such as video player or transcoder.

Blog authors around the world, Google would like to remind you that it's your blog, your data. Now that Blogger allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters project. This new Open Source project provides the ability to easily move blog posts and comments from service to service. This initial release provides Python libraries and runnable scripts that convert between the export formats of Blogger, LiveJournal, MovableType, and WordPress.

This is a tutorial documenting the steps I’ve been working through over the past week to integrate WPMu, BuddyPress, and bbPress. All of the applications versions I am currently using are either in beta, alpha, or taken from the trunk. So, needless to say, this tutorial will have to be updated regularly as the versions stabilize. Knowing this, I wrote this tutorial in a wiki, which I plan to update regularly as the version of each application changes. And once it’s all solid, I plan on moving it to any WordPress codex that will take it 🙂

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site wide feeds for wpmu

Maatkit makes MySQL easier and safer to manage. It provides simple, predictable ways to do things you cannot otherwise do. It would be nice if these features were included with MySQL, but they are not. That's why Maatkit is now shipping by default with many GNU/Linux distributions such as Debian and CentOS.

Good reference on customizing WordPress RSS feeds.

BackupPC is a high-performance, enterprise-grade system for backing up Linux, WinXX and MacOSX PCs and laptops to a server's disk. BackupPC is highly configurable and easy to install and maintain

A script to take daily, weekly and monthly backups of your MySQL databases using mysqldump. Features – Backup mutiple databases – Single backup file or to a seperate file for each DB – Compress backup files – Backup remote servers – E-mail logs

One question I come across a lot regarding custom fields is how to only retrieve posts based on a custom field.

For example, if a post has a custom field of “MyData”, someone might want to only retrieve that particular post.

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